Retrieved: A Feminist Foreign Policy Series

What can a feminist foreign policy bring to peacebuilding efforts? What can national governments learn from civil societies when it comes to ensuring a long-lasting peace? And what will it take to truly have equal representation at the negotiating table? In this episode, activist, academic, and NGO leader Maria Hadjipavlou talks us through the important work she has done for the divided communitie...

Who produces knowledge on feminist foreign policy? When did academic research on feminist international relations start taking shape? And who gets to define what a feminist foreign policy might look like? In this episode, we go back in time with Lucia Yar, acting editor-in-chief of Euractiv Slovakia, to find the roots of feminist foreign policy in movements of the early-20th century, whilst discus...

What would we see if we looked at migration through the gender lens? How does the experience of displacement differ for women and vulnerable social groups? In this episode, we speak with Neda Noraie-Kia, Head of European Migration Policy at the Thessaloniki Office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. We talk about the gender aspect of migration policy and its relation to foreign policy. We discuss whe...

How does conflict impact women and vulnerable social groups? Are their needs being taken into account in defence policy and in arms trade? Member of the Bundestag, Merle Spellerberg, and Head of the Gender and Disarmament Programme at UNIDIR, Renata Hessmann Dalaqua, discuss the disproportionate impacts of conflict on women and vulnerable groups, and suggest what a feminist foreign policy can do t...

What is a feminist foreign policy? And why are some countries rushing to adopt it? Does it just concern women? Or is it a new, more radical approach to foreign policy looking to dismantle patriarchal structures and achieve equality for all? We sit down with Berlin-based Nina Bernarding, CEO and co-founder of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, to talk about everything from working with feminis...

Feminism and patriarchy are terms we tend to encounter in discussions about the way societies are organised internally. And yet, foreign policy, just like most fields of policy-making, is heavily affected by patriarchal structures and prejudice. In the series of podcasts ‘Retrieved’, by the Heinrich Böll Foundation - Thessaloniki office, we bring together experts, policy-makers and members of the...